On 5/22/16 6:43 PM, Grisha Levit wrote: > This multiple-vars-at-same-scope thing happens also happens in the case > that the nameref points to a variable at a higher scope of the same name as > the nameref. I suspect this is related to the nameref resolution issue here > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2016-05/msg00115.html
It doesn't happen any more; the attempt to create the second array `a' is trapped and rejected. I'd like to catch the error earlier, though, kind of like ksh93 does. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/